Example sentences of "by then " in BNC.
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| 1 | By then , however , Patrick has been informed , by an office placeman and fuddy-duddy who believes that trendiness has ruined everything , that smelly Simon , though he may be obnoxious , is not Jewish . |
| 2 | By then a ‘ desperate man ’ , Leonid is sent as such on a desperate mission , and is killed . |
| 3 | I tried an abortive term at Durham University Drama Department and that made me realise even more that I wanted the real thing ; by then I had , in any case , worked the AIM stint and I did n't need theory ; I wanted practice . |
| 4 | All that and more went through my mind , wrote Harsnet , as I sat there in the moonlight in the silence , but it was as if it was the glass which was telling me this , that the glass was my mind as I thought that , or my mind the glass , and that was the reason for the fear and the cold and also for the sense of growing excitement and a fear then , a different kind of fear , that I would not be able to do anything with this excitement , that it would be my failure , my failure to realize what I now saw were the real possibilities of the glass , a failure for which I would never be able to forgive myself , though a part of me would always know or perhaps only believe that it was in the nature of my insight that there could be no realization of it , that it was precisely an insight about non-realization , but by then , wrote Harsnet , it had all become too complicated , too extreme , I did not want to know any of it until it was all over , until I had made my effort , perhaps it had been a mistake to come in and sit there with the glass through the night with the moon shining so brightly , it must have been full , or nearly full , unnaturally bright anyway , something to do with the solstice perhaps , to sit in the room with the glass alone or with the moon alone might have been bearable , in the dark with the glass or in the moonlight in an empty room , but the two together , the glass and the moon , that was perhaps the mistake . |
| 5 | It was raining by then anyway . |
| 6 | And if the doctor wants the police the performance will be over by then and the house cleared before they can possibly get here . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Things might have changed for you too by then , you know . |
| 8 | By then you will have become tuned in to the driving and will be better able to judge if it is safe to go a little faster . |
| 9 | By then the glider may be airborne and a cart-wheel will be unavoidable . |
| 10 | If , by then , it is obvious that there is plenty of room to turn back into wind and land , this is the sensible thing to do . |
| 11 | On another occasion when I was involved in the tense process of bringing prisoners into the charge room in the central bridewell in Newcastle , a very precise ex-detective colleague ( by then a neat , uniformed chief inspector ) stopped me to exclaim on my appearance . |
| 12 | Some of us knew what that meant by then . |
| 13 | But by then he had taken refuge in the church , and the service must have been little more than a conversation between him and old MacDiarmid , because not another soul had dared to run the gauntlet and go inside when the clock struck three . |
| 14 | By then Cameron 's mind was rousing itself from shock , there were many things he wanted to say to James , but the moment they stepped down under the massive archway of the prison they were hustled in opposite directions . |
| 15 | Closures had practically ceased by 1980 but a far greater force had by then begun to take effect . |
| 16 | Delivery of the final members of the class was still taking place at the end of the decade , but the early members had by then settled into their routine of West Coast InterCity push-pull passenger duties with similarlooking new driving van trailers at the opposite end , plus freights from the North to the East Coast ports via the newly electrified North London link . |
| 17 | By then ‘ Tixier ’ had taken his anti-Gaullist crusade to the point of running himself as a presidential candidate . |
| 18 | By then , Bedford will be left fighting for survival in four crunching closing fixtures and when Patterson makes his likely league debut it will be in Bath , of all places . |
| 19 | By then , the game was set in an exciting crescendo , Palace interrupting the openings contrived down the right by Mike Newell and Pat Nevin with breaks aimed at Wright 's speed and control . |
| 20 | Who knows what the costs will look like by then ? |
| 21 | In 1975 a Labour Greater London Council backed down and in 1979 , although the Evening Standard said ‘ Londoners ready for the 50p toll ’ , Sir Horace Cutler , leader of the by then Conservative GLC , dismissed such charges as ‘ unfair and impracticable ’ . |
| 22 | By then both men were heavy-legged and Mason 's inexperience at this level of boxing looked like becoming a decisive factor until he closed in and sent the American down with a short right to the temple and then a following left hook . |
| 23 | By then the Pozsgay bulldozer was rolling ahead at full speed . |
| 24 | The Court adjourned the matter until Thursday , ‘ but it is hoped by both parties that by then the current uncertainty and speculation concerning the future of Manchester will have been resolved ’ . |
| 25 | It is also understood that the Treasury by then was concluding that an interest rate increase would be needed to ensure a clampdown on inflation . |
| 26 | By then Wyllie , the sole selector , hopes to have given all 30 players a game . |
| 27 | But by then it is too late . |
| 28 | Bolshevik sources reveal that about half the population of the guberniia did not have enough to eat by then , and the position was no better by spring of 1922 . |
| 29 | Industrial prices by then had risen two to three times more quickly than agricultural ones . |
| 30 | Frequent administrative changes ‘ created conditions for its progressive ( sic ) decline and to a kustar ’ development of communications ' ( it is interesting to note that ‘ kustar' ’ had by then followed ‘ kulak ’ as a term of abuse ) . |